"Words and Pictures" has more than enough of both. It's excessively wordy -- the characters never shut up and the script by Gerald Di Pego is bursting with literary allusions and quotations and ...

If “Which is more important — words or pictures?” sounds to you like the kind of pointless debate that a roomful of stoned college freshmen might engage in late one night, you’re right. Somehow, this ...

“Words and Pictures” takes its title from a clash set off by distinguished artist and teacher Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche). In her first class at a prep school in Maine, she tells her honors fine ...

The first trailer for director Fred Schepisi's romantic dramedy Words and Pictures is now available. The film stars Clive Owen as Jack Marcus, an English teacher struggling to keep his students' ...

Words and Pictures is a love story that actually has something on its mind beyond romance. A thoughtful film (***½ out of four; rated PG-13; expands to select cities Friday) about ideas — creativity, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Pen and paintbrush vie for supremacy in Fred Schepisi's flaccid highbrow romantic comedy. Broadly speaking, Owen and Binoche’s characters here could be personifications of the double-sided Kandinsky ...

In an age where romantic-comedies are practically extinct, Words and Pictures stands out as throwback to the kind of movie that audiences used to love. Clive Owen plays Jack Marcus, an English teacher ...

“Words and Pictures,” starring Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche, is a middle-aged romantic comedy masquerading as a war between literature and art. The battleground is a Maine prep school set in a ...